Anticipating our Summer Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir, we will be sharing some of our favorite talks from past summers for the next few weeks. This week: 'Three Voices on Voice' a panel from the 2021 Summer Workshops in the Virtual Valley with Dana Johnson, Peter Orner and Andrew Tonkovich.

Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio

The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

Anticipating our Summer Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir, we will be sharing some of our favorite talks from past summers for the next few weeks. This week: 'About the About' by Amy Tan.

Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio

The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

My guest this week is Lisa K. Richter, who has written an elegant multi-form memoir meets biography, a book constructed in a series of short, impressionist, lyrical recollections and insights, portraits and meditations, all with music in the background and, indeed, in the foreground. In Fly, My Darling, Richter both condenses and expands, simultaneously, on an unlikely love story, one so meaningful and transformative that perhaps this multi-form collage of document, journal, poetry, family history and grief chronicle --- and again, always with music --- could be told only and most vividly in gorgeous fragments which, finally, in their combining, produce a full, rich portrait of both self and subject.

It’s the story of Lisa Richter and Lynda Roth, of a piano student and her teacher, of lovers, of a caregiver and the commitments demanded of love. Finally, the book esteems and celebrates the lost lover and, in its telling, introduces us to a writer who has used everything she has to find her own art and identity.

Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio

The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.